Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire this was important because it badly rocked the majority party's boat, suggested that masterly Inactor Baldwin may be forced to act, a prospect fraught with parlous implications...
...present English situation, although popularly considered desperate, is not nearly as parlous as Mr. Hearst would like us to believe. Their industries, the unemployment situation, their psychology, are all in better health than in America, and although Mr. Priestly may see fit to throw up his hands in holy horror at the squalor and degradation of the working classes, this is unmistakably the reaction of a gently nurtured being shuddering at its first contact with the icy waters of life. Had his "English Journey" been taken in the sweatshops of New York, or in the coal mines of Pennsylvania...
That these attacks are deserved is only evident; American education is in a parlous state indeed. Getting a really thorough training in a high school has become extremely difficult for the student, encumbered as he is with extra-curricular activities and business and vocational courses. While no one would advocate a return to Jesuitical methods, which make a wearing drudgery out of school, it is surely plain that the swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest...
...lectures were by distinguished people especially qualified to diacunn the present state of the world which in parlous. The human race is undoubtedly possessed by a variety of devils and in engaged in "racing" toward that steep place which seems to have always attracted the insane...
Patiently the statesmen explained that this was no time for a war with China. Japan's business and finances were in parlous state. Japan's second-biggest indus-try is clothing China and providing her with manufactured articles. Chinese troops cannot fight a modern army, but China has one terrible weapon, the boycott. An effective boycott of Japanese goods would be catastrophe. This reasoning impressed elderly Japanese generals, but not the younger officers. They waited for a 301st Incident. They got it with the execution of Captain Shintaro Nakamura by Manchurian troops (TIME, Sept. 28). Start officers kicked over...